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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Understanding God

Greetings, I have promised my
English followers to write a post in English so here it is. I often receive
questions from Muslims and Non-Muslims about understanding God. They ask me,
why God created us? Why would God do something like that? And other popular
questions. The simple answer is; Human beings can never understand or learn
about all the reasons behind God’s works.

You might wonder if that’s
the case then all the Books God revealed to his Prophets should be false
because God, is something human beings including Prophets, can't understand!
This includes his words as well. The Prophets should also be false and liars
because no human being can understand all the reasons behind God’s works, if
they can’t understand that, how they are supposed to understand God so they
should be liars! How Prophets, Spiritual Leaders, Scholars claim this is what God
wants?

The issue is such people
didn’t understand a critical matter. When we say we can’t understand [All] the
reasons behind God’s works, doesn’t mean we don’t know or understand anything
at all! We may understand one reason why God allowed one thing to happen but we
can never know all the reasons. This happens even in our life, an author may
use a cover for his book to reflect many different meanings, we may only
discover one of the reasons why he used that cover but there might be many
other reasons for selecting specific photo as the cover of his book.

As for understanding the
words of God well that’s easy, we all can understand them, the reason for that
is because God revealed his Book to Prophet in a language human being can
understand so claiming human beings cannot understand the words of God revealed
to us through his books is a wrong claim. However, understanding the secrets
behind the verses in his book is something not all of us can, of course
understanding all the reasons or what we call in Arabic (الحكم) or reasons/wisdoms why God used
specifically this word and didn’t use other words having the same meaning, why
he specifically said it in that specific order, etc… are things we may discover
some of them but can never discover all the secrets. Also God revealed many of
the secrets behind his works in the Quran and other books revealed to his
Prophets. For example he says he created human beings to worship him, or
created stars to be a guidance, created mountains for such and such reasons. Example
from the Holy Quran:

“O mankind! We have
created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes,
that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is
that (believer) who has At-Taqwa [i.e. one of the Muttaqun (pious). Verily,
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.” God
told us a reason why he made us into nations and tribes, the reason: “so we may
know one another” similarly you would find many other examples in the Holy
Quran where God reveal to us some of the secrets behind creation.

Now why God created the human
in that form, the cow in such form, the bat, why I am white and you are black,
why my eyes are small and yours big…etc we may understand some of the reasons
behind that but we can never discover all the secrets behind such creations,
that’s why we Muslims believe in God’s great names such as: “All Merciful, The
Wise, The Great, etc…” we Muslims believe there nothing in this universe God
created for no reason otherwise God wouldn’t be perfect, because anyone who do
something for no reason even among human being is considered sometimes
ignorant! Why would we can even think that God designed his creation in the way
we see today for no reason! Depending on One’s knowledge he/she may discover
some of the secrets behind that, that’s why we find God saying in his book
(such and such are signs for those of you who understands).

There is a different level of
understanding among human beings, I may understand 10 reasons why God did that,
you dear reader may understand 20, another scholar may discover 1000 secrets,
the level of understanding is different, we see this in our daily life, school,
university, work, etc… and since we are created and God is the creator, we are
human and he is God, our knowledge, power, wisdom, mercy, love, etc… cannot be
compared because we are limited and God is unlimited. You dear reader, may
understand few things in my mind, but can you claim you that you know
everything in my mind? No human can say that, similarly to understand everything
about God, or all the reasons behind his works at least you need to be God!
Since we can never be Gods, why should we believe we can understand everything
about God?

About Me

AbdulAziz Mohammed, A Lover of God, Spirituals, Books and Humans (Selectively!). A writer from UAE who may frighten strangers with his non-typical ideas, if not, he’s most likely getting frightened by what he reads in books! A perfectionist, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes his interest. AbdulAziz do not readily grasp the social rituals; A Lone Wolf: a common description used by so many people who know him in real life. To strangers like you, he may appear to project an aura of "Self-Confidence”. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive. Possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability, Anything is possible; everything is negotiable.